My practice involves the dialogue between order and chaos. The process is a constant experiment with the physical properties of paint (color, texture, sheen), moving between addition and subtraction, making and unmaking. All working to a place where I lose control of the painting, and then struggling back to achieve the right balance between wild spontaneity and emotional restraint. This is a struggle that I have to revisit with every painting, straining to hear an interior alphabet that leaks out during the actual act of painting. It is a personal and, I hope, universal language that I have to relearn and translate every time and is the challenge that drives me on to the next work.
My Road Rage photography series tackles these sam problems, and attempts to capture this same dynamic, through the lens of the camera. While out on the streets, I am always on the lookout for ambiguous accidents of beauty and power, ground into the common pavement.
My work is inspired from the natural and manmade phenomena I observe in the world around me. The historical context of my work is that of Abstract Expressionism, Post-painterly Abstraction, Color Field painting and Minimalism.
Artist Biography
Born: New York City in 1950
Education
Mills College, Oakland, CA MFA
Awards & Honors
2018 4th Annual Colorful Abstractions, Fusion Arts-Artsy Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2017 Perkins Center for Arts, Photographic Award Show scheduled in March 2018, Collingwood, NJ
Microgrant Project Award, InLiquid & dickblick.com Philadelphia, PA
2013 Drexel University Purchases Award, "Road Rage #31" Philadelphia, PA
1977 Full Merit Scholarship for graduate study, Mills College Oakland, CA
Bibliography
2017 Heithaus, Harriet "National Photo Show Emphasizes Drama", The Naples Daily News, June 14, 2017
2014 Haupt, Chuck “The Photography Spot-Editor’s Choice”, Ragazine.cc, September 2014
Bloom, Robin "'RSVP' at LGTripp Gallery", WHYY Newsworks, August 2014
1991 Roland, Carolyn “Found Objects”, Art Matters, November 1991
Crohn, Jennifer “Art as a Civic Virture”, The East Bay Guardian, November 1991
Mullinax, Gary “Junk Debunks Presentation of Modern Art” The News Journal, September 12, 1991
Littlefield, Kinnery “Added Dimension shoulders the Load”, Press-Telegram, July 29,1991
1987 Van Proyen, Mark “Craft and Abstraction”, Artweek, January 31,1987
1985 Barker, Kenneth “Two Local Artist with Colorful Ideas”, San Francisco Chronicle, July 1, 1985
Bell, Michael “Sculpture Music”, Artweek, January 31,1985
1984 Jan, Alfred “Shape and Sources”, Fine Arts, January 5, 1984
1983 Liss, Andrea “Bay Area Geometric Abstraction”, Artweek, January 31,1983
1982 Workman,Andree “Redolent Surface”, Artweek, January 31,1982
Collection
Dellen Publishing Company, San Francisco, CA Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA California State University, East Bay, Hayward, CA Heathman Hotel, Portland, OR Leanin Tree Publication, Denver, CO Park’n Fly Service Corporation, St. Louis, MO Peerless Electric Company, Berkeley, CA Oracle Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA Southland Corporation, Dallas, TX The National Old City Apartments, Philadelphia, PA Triple S. Investment Company, Portland, OR Walden Venture Capital Investment Inc., San Francisco, CA
Exhibitions
Solo
1991 Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1990 Acme Art, San Francisco, CA
1989 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1988 Acme Art, San Francisco, CA
1987 Acme Art, San Francisco, CA
1985 Acme Art, San Francisco, CA
1982 Foster Goldstrom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Two-Person
1992 Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1989 Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1986 Acme Art, San Francisco, CA
1984 Stella Polaris, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Foster Goldstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
1983 Foster Goldstrom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group
2018 2018 SOHO Photo Gallery National Competition, SOHO Photo Gallery, New York, NY
26th International Art Exhibition, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, TX
4th Annual Colorful Abstractions, Fusion Arts-Artsy Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
PHOTO 36 Award Exhibition, Perkins Center for the Art,s Collingswood, NJ
2017 Camera USA® 2017: National Photography Exhibition and Award, The von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL Curator: Robin O'Dell, Curator of Photographic Collections, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Fresh Hues, Media Arts Council & Gallery, Media, PA Curator: Alice Beamesderfer, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Annual Open Media Juried Exhibition, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ Curator: Robert Blackson, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Photography 36, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ Curator: Sarah Stolfa, Executive & Artistic Director of the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
F r a g mented, ArtSceneToday, Queens, NY
Contemporary Abstraction, Core New Art Space, Denver, CO
2016 Fragmented Identities, Venice Art House Gallery, Santa Croce, Venezia, Italy
Movement, Linus Art Galleries, Long Beach, CA
Small Works, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH
Raw Materials, Reinboth & Company, Lambertville, NJ
2015 Postcard Invitational, SPACEWOMb Gallery, Manhattan-New York City, NY
Open Lens, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
The Earth Speaks, ArtSpace Gallery, Stroudsburg, PA
2014 RSVP 4, LGTripp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Invitational
Curators Choice, Metropolitan Gallery, Austin, TX
1998 Rough Material, Foster Goldstrom Gallery, Manhattan-New York City, NY
1994 Lost & Found, ArtLink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN
Movement in Space, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1993 Recycler, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA
The Sculpture Tour, University of Tennessee, Nashville, TN
1992 Fragile Earth, Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA
Found Objects as Art, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA
Real Space, Works Gallery, Costa Masa, CA
Residue Immortalized, Security Pacific Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 Emeryville Fifth Annual, Park Avenue Wharehouse, Emeryville, CA Curator: Phil Linhares, Head Curator of the Oakland Museum
Lost and Found, Finegood Art Gallery, West Hills, CA
Found Objects, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DW
Art Trends, Clary-Miner Gallery Buffalo, NY Curator: Barbara Haskell of the Whitney Museum
66th Annual Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Crocker-Kingsley Museum Sacramento, CA Curator- Karen Tsujiumoto of the Oakland Museum
The North American Sculpture Exhibition, The Foothill Art Center, Golden, CO
Earth, Brandstater Gallery, Loma Linda University, Riverside CA Curator, Josine Starrels of the Long Beach Museum
1990 Miniatures & Small Works, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
New Direction, Barrett House, Poughkeepsie, NY Curator, Charlotta Kotik of the Brooklyn Museum
Metal Now Exhibition, Downey Museum, Downey, CA
1986 Bay Area Abstraction, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1985 Sculptural Painting, St. Mary’s College, Oakland CA
1984 Las Vegas Small Sculpture National, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV
1983 Shapes and Sources, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Route 66 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Planar Dimension: Geometric Abstraction by Bay Area Artists, Walnut Creek Civic Center, Walnut Creek, CA
1980 55th Annual Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Crocker-Kingsley Museum, Sacramento, CA
1979 Young Artist-New Directions, Diablo Valley College, Concord, CA
